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The Newsletter presents an exciting blend of science, horticulture, and news briefs. Here are the article titles that appeared in recent issues.

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Contents of the December 2009 Issue (#38:4)

  • News and Views
  • CPN 25 years ago
  • Nepenthes attenboroughii: A new species of giant pitcher plant from the Philippines
  • Nepenthes alba and Nepenthes gracillima
  • Photosynthetic CO2 affinity of aquatic carnivorous plants growing under nearly-natural conditions and in vitro
  • The natural behavior of Drosera: Sundews do not catch insects on purpose
  • Drosera x fontinalis (Droseraceae), the first natural sundew hybrid from South America
  • Literature reviews
  • ICPS seed bank

Contents of the September 2009 Issue (#38:3)

  • Splinter Hill Reserve, an in-depth look
  • Ecophysiological investigation on Drosophyllum lusitanicum: Why doesn’t the plant dry out?
  • Comparative studies on the acid proteinase activities in the digestive fluids of Nepenthes, Cephalotus, Dionaea, and Drosera
  • Pinguicula elongata of Colombia
  • Drosera macrantha subsp. eremaea
  • News and Views
  • 8th ICPS Conference in August 2010!
  • New cultivars: Sarracenia 'Jessica'
  • The Savage Garden: Temporary, public displays
  • ICPS seed bank
  • Literature reviews

Contents of the June 2009 Issue (#38:2)

  • Letter from the editor
  • Soil fertilization of Sarracenia seedlings
  • An informal field study of some Nepenthes habitats
  • The folklore of man-eating plants
  • Board member election
  • The Venusian lizard trap
  • New cultivars: Sarracenia ‘Kilimanjaro’, Sarracenia ‘Tapestry’, Sarracenia ‘Opawa Emperor’
  • News and views
  • ICPS seed bank
  • News from the field
  • The savage garden: Barry and Beth’s misguided adventures with SUPERthrive™
  • Literature Reviews

Contents of the March 2009 Issue (#38:1)

  • Letter from the editor
  • A new variety of Drosera spatulata (Droseraceae) from Sarawak, Borneo
  • News and views
  • Brocchinia reducta light preferences
  • New cultivars: Byblis ‘Goliath’, Nepenthes maxima ‘Lake Poso’, Sarracenia ‘Reptilian Rose’, Sarracenia ‘Black Widow’, Sarracenia ‘Royal Ruby’, Sarracenia ‘Alucard’
  • Pinguicula planifolia submersion technique
  • Looking for horticultural effects of SUPERthrive™ on Nepenthes
  • From the board: Splinter Hill Bog update
  • CPN 25 years ago
  • Literature reviews
  • Names of cultivars registered in 2008
  • Instructions to authors
  • ICPS seed bank

Contents of the December 2008 Issue (#37:4)

  • Finally, some time to enjoy my plants!
  • Observations of isolated Pinguicula populations in the western USA
  • New cultivars: Utricularia alpina x humboldtii ‘Nüdlinger Flair’
  • Book review: Miraculum Naturae: Venus’s Flytrap
  • New names for natural hybrids in Sarracenia
  • A nomenclaturally acceptable rank for the sundew epithet “obovata
  • Further comments on fauna trapped by Eucnide urens (Parry ex Gray) Parry
  • News and Views
  • Literature reviews
  • Book review: Glistening Carnivores - the Sticky-Leaved Insect-Eating Plants
  • Seed bank
  • Index of contributors

Contents of the September 2008 Issue (#37:3)

Contents of the June 2008 Issue (#37:2)

Contents of the March 2008 Issue (#37:1)

  • Seed bank
  • Utricularia (Lentibulariaceae) of Iran
  • Book review: The curious world of carnivorous plants
  • Looking back: CPN 25 years ago
  • Floral dimorphism in Utricularia janarthanamii
  • Conference announcement
  • Reassessing commensal-enabled carnivory in Proboscidea and Ibicella?
  • Literature reviews
  • Names of cultivars registered in 2007
  • New cultivars: Dionaea muscipula 'Microdents', Drosera 'Ivan's Paddle', Pinguicula 'Down Under'
  • A Sarracenia purpurea population in a peatland of southern New Hampshire
  • Instructions to authors

Contents of the December 2007 Issue (#36:4)

  • Seed bank
  • Some observations on Pinguicula balcanica Casper and P. hirtiflora Ten. (Lentibulariaceae) from Balkans
  • Pinguicula vulgaris L. in the Champagne state of France: life in an alkaline bog
  • Book review
  • Literature Reviews
  • New Cultivars [Utricularia alpina ‘Pittier Moon’]
  • Book Review
  • Conference Announcements
  • Looking Back: CPN 25 years ago
  • DVD Review
  • A Genlisea Myth is Confirmed
  • News and Views
  • Index to 2007

Contents of the September 2007 Issue (#36:3)

  • Seed bank
  • New Cultivars [Dionaea muscipula ‘Bohemian Garnet’, Nepenthes talangensis × maxima ‘Lady Pauline’]
  • Book review: The Nepenthaceae of the Netherlands Indies
  • Conference announcements
  • Book review: A field guide to the Nepenthes of Sumatra
  • Looking back: CPN 25 years ago
  • Variations in the content and isozymic composition of nepenthesin in the pitcher fluids among Nepenthes species
  • Flavonoids occurring in the sticky resin on Roridula dentata and Roridula gorgonias (Roridulaceae)
  • Literature reviews
  • A case of Nepenthes rafflesiana with a lotus-like flower!
  • What is the evidence for medicinal value of carnivorous plants?
  • Differentiation of Utricularia ochroleuca and U. stygia populations in Trebon basin, Czech Republic, on the basis of quadrifid glands

Contents of the June 2007 Issue (#36:2)

  • Seed bank
  • Some Background on the CPN Scanning Project
  • Looking Back: CPN 25 years ago
  • 1806, year of birth of the “cruel” Pinguicula crystallina Sm. (Lentibulariaceae)
  • Conference Announcements
  • Utricularia Containment: Trying to Prevent the Great Escape
  • Literature Reviews
  • New Cultivars [Dionaea muscipula 'Petite Dragon', Sarracenia flava 'Suspicion', Sarracenia alata 'Night']
  • Prey preference in two species of North American bladderworts (Utricularia) suitable for water gardens
  • Book Review
  • News and Views

Contents of the March 2007 Issue (#36:1)

  • Seed bank
  • Letter from the editor
  • Pinguicula chilensis-habitat observations from the Nahuelbuta National Park in Chile
  • Looking back: CPN 25 years ago
  • An interesting observation on the mycorrhizal symbiosis in the insectivorous plant, Drosera peltata Sm., in Meghalaya, North-East India
  • Droseraceae gland and germination patterns revisited: support for recent molecular phylogenetic studies
  • Book Review
  • Names of Cultivars Registered in 2006
  • News and Views
  • Carnivorous Plants with Hybrid Trapping Strategies
  • Literature Reviews
  • Instructions to Authors

Contents of the December 2006 Issue (#35:4)

  • Seed bank
  • Carnivorous plants in the New Forest
  • The time memory of the Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula Ellis)
  • Insecticidal characteristics of the desert stingbush (Eucnide urens)
  • Looking back: CPN 25 years ago
  • Additional notes on Eucnide urens (Parry ex Gray) Parry in the Family Loasaceae
  • News and Views
  • Index of Contributors

Contents of the September 2006 Issue (#35:3)

  • Seed bank
  • New Cultivars [Sarracenia 'Chagall', Drosera rotundifolia 'Charles Darwin']
  • The Stunning Red-Flowered Drosera cistiflora in the wild and in cultivation
  • Observations of a Two-Headed Flytrap
  • Looking back: CPN 25 years ago
  • A Bog at Walden Pond: Serendipitous Botanical History
  • Propagating Dionaea by tissue culture using flower stalks
  • Aldrovanda vesiculosa and its Cohabitant Algae in culture
  • News and Views
  • History of the name Pinguicula hirtiflora Ten. (Lentibulariaceae), or on the uncertainties of Michele Tenore about butterworts
  • On Growing Mexican Pinguicula
  • Literature reviews

Contents of the June 2006 Issue (#35:2)

  • Seed bank
  • Darlingtonia californica (Sarraceniaceae) and Sarracenia purpurea (Sarraceniaceae) -- profiles of a refugee and a recluse in British Columbia
  • Election announcement
  • White-petalled Drosera microphylla Endl. from near Esperance, Western Australia
  • Heliamphora exappendiculata, a clearly distinct species with unique characteristics
  • Naphthoquinones content of some sundews (Drosera L)
  • Plumbagin content in Aldrovanda vesiculosa shoots
  • Looking back: CPN 25 years ago
  • Book review
  • Literature reviews
  • Unexpected hybrids of spectacular bladderworts species

Contents of the March 2006 Issue (#35:1)

  • Seed bank
  • A New Species of Pinguicula (Lentibulariaceae) from Nuevo Leon, Mexico [Pinguicula nivalis]
  • Looking Back: CPN 25 years ago
  • Book and Literature Reviews
  • New Cultivars [Drosera capillaris ‘Emerald’s Envy’]
  • Utricularia jamesoniana in cultivation
  • Root anatomy of three carnivorous plant species
  • Tropical Pitcher Plant (Nepenthes: Nepenthaceae) Pollen Germinability and Storage: Conservation Implications
  • News and Views
  • Names of Cultivars registered in 2005
  • Instructions to Authors

Contents of the December 2005 Issue (#34:4)

  • Seed bank
  • Notes on some little known carnivorous plants from Madagascar
  • Roridula, a carnivorous shrub from South Africa
  • Looking Back: CPN 25 years ago
  • ICPS Grant News: Restoration at a North Carolina Mountain Bog
  • Nepenthes clipeata Conservation
  • Nepenthes clipeata Survival Project
  • News and Views
  • Tax Deductions and the ICPS
  • Index of Contributors

Contents of the September 2005 Issue (#34:3)

  • Seed bank
  • Observations of Cephalotus follicularis and Drosera binata in Western Australia
  • News and Views
  • Comments on a Useful Pesticide
  • Literature Reviews
  • Youthword—herbal Alchemy
  • Scott Bennett's Carnivorous Plant Prints
  • A Veinless Form of Sarracenia purpurea subsp. purpurea Discovered in Ontario, Canada
  • New Chromosome Numbers for Drosera L. (Droseraceae)
  • Growing Utricularia gibba
  • Looking Back: CPN 25 Years Ago
  • Student Experiment Project: Number of closures of Dionaea muscipula leaves

Contents of the June 2005 Issue (#34:2)

Contents of the March 2005 Issue (#34:1)

Contents of the December 2004 Issue (#33:4)

  • Seed bank
  • New Cultivars [Dionaea 'Fused Tooth', Dionaea 'Louchapates' (Dionaea 'Noodle Ladle')]
  • Contribution to the Cytotaxonomical Knowledge of the Genus Pinguicula L. (Lentibulariaceae): a Synthesis of the Karyological Data
  • Heliamphora elongata (Sarraceniaceae), a new species from Ilu-Tepui
  • News and Views
  • Looking Back: CPN 25 Years Ago
  • Special Review: Nepenthes inermis Model
  • Red Aldrovanda from near Esperance, Western Australia
  • Tax Deductions and the ICPS
  • Forget anything?
  • Board Member Elections
  • Leaf Pullings: A "New" Way to Propagate Sarracenia Vegetatively
  • Index of Contributors

Contents of the September 2004 Issue (#33:3)

  • Seed bank
  • Pinguicula crystallina Sibth. et Smith subsp. hirtiflora (Ten.) Strid (Lentibulariaceae) in Calabria (Southern Italy). Cytotaxonomical study and ex situ conservation in the Botanic Garden of Calabria University.
  • News and Views
  • New Address Announcement
  • Noteworthy Collections: Anthocyanin-Free Sarracenia alata (Wood) Wood in Alabama
  • A large flowered form of U. bisquamata from near Hermanus, South Africa
  • Looking Back: CPN 25 Years Ago
  • Observations on the Aldrovanda-containing and Aldrovanda-lacking Areas of Girraween Lagoon, Australia
  • New Cultivars [Drosera regia 'Big Easy', Drosera 'Rhodesian Beauty', Sarracenia 'Katerina', Sarracenia 'Sorrow', Pinguicula 'Enigma']
  • How to Grow a Ridiculously Large Number of Sundews

Contents of the June 2004 Issue (#33:2)

  • Seed bank
  • Experiences with Propagation of Sarracenia flava (Sarraceniaceae) Through Division With Only One Growing Spot
  • News and Views
  • The Conservation and Display of Southeastern U.S. Pitcher Plant Bogs at the Crosby Arboretum
  • A New Mexican Species of Pinguicula (Lentibulariaceae) [Pinguicula pilosa]
  • Observations on Two Different Forms of Utricularia reniformis
  • New Cultivars [Drosera spatulata 'Ruby Slippers', Utricularia reniformis 'Enfant Terrible', Utricularia reniformis 'Big Sister']
  • Board Member Elections
  • Looking Back: CPN 25 Years Ago
  • Aspects of Ecology of Drosera rotundifolia L. at the White Sea Coast
  • Literature reviews
  • Instructions to Authors
  • Index of Nomenclatural Novelties in This Issue

Contents of the March 2004 Issue (#33:1)

  • Seed bank
  • The Saga of the Hurricane Creek White Sarracenia leucophylla
  • Looking Back: CPN 25 Years Ago
  • A Field Study of Sarracenia oreophila
  • Party Time--Mix and Match
  • Names of Cultivars Registered in 2003
  • Special Review: Gulf Coast Carnivorous Plants Populations--DVD
  • New Cultivars [Dionaea 'Clayton's Red Sunset', Nepenthes 'Hortulanus Otten', Pinguicula 'Florian', Sarracenia 'Bug Scoop', Sarracenia leucophylla 'Hurricane Creek White']
  • The Special Relationship Between Nepenthes and Tree Frogs
  • Experiments with Highland Nepenthes Seedlings: A Summary of Measured Tolerances

Contents of the December 2003 Issue (#32:4)

  • Seed bank
  • Book Review: Amazing World of Carnivorous Plants
  • Three Utricularia species worthy of cultivation
  • A Sarracenia purpurea var. montana conservation project
  • Wetland plants in the desert
  • Book review: A Guide to the Pitcher Plants of Peninsular Malaysia
  • Utricularia stygia in California, USA, and U. ochroleuca at its southern range
  • Literature reviews
  • Looking Back: CPN 25 Years Ago
  • News and Views

Contents of the September 2003 Issue (#32:3)

  • Seed bank
  • Book Review: Borneo--its Mountains and Lowlands with their Pitcher Plants
  • Share the Joy
  • What is the Accepted Name for this Plant? -or- Do I Have to Call it Sarracenia rosea?
  • In Vitro Propagation of Byblis filifolia (Byblidaceae)
  • Four New Species of Sundews, Drosera (Droseraceae), from Brazil [Drosera tentaculata, Drosera grantsaui, Drosera camporupestris, Drosera viridis]
  • Index of Nomenclatural Novelties in This Issue
  • News and Views
  • Looking Back: CPN 25 Years Ago

Contents of the June 2003 Issue (#32:2)

  • Seed bank
  • Genlisea Traps---A new piece of knowledge
  • Further problem in Genlisea trap untangled?
  • Zero water flows in the carnivorous genus Genlisea
  • Looking Back: CPN 25 years ago
  • Cultivation of Nepenthes northiana
  • Curious natural hybrid sundews
  • Observations on life strategies of Genlisea, Heliamphora, and Utricularia
    in natural habitats
  • Literature reviews
  • Names of cultivars registered in 2002
  • Book review

Contents of the March 2003 Issue (#32:1)

  • Seed bank
  • Sarracenia Distribution Program
  • Looking Back: CPN 25 years ago
  • Amazing Thailand
  • Book Review
  • "Discovering" Carnivorous Plants
  • ICPS Wild Seed Collection Policy
  • Pinguicula loxensis (Lentibulariaceae) -- A Lost Name by Humboldt and Bonpland?
  • A Novel Method for the Cultivation of Nepenthes villosa
  • New Cultivars [Sarracenia 'Chas' Brew', Sarracenia 'Cobra Nest', Sarracenia 'Scarlet Belle']
  • ICPS on the World Wide Web: Carnivorous Plant Newsletter Index
  • The ICPS Seed Bank Can Now Distribute Endangered Species Seed within the USA.
  • Instructions to Authors

Contents of the December 2002 Issue (#31:4)

  • Drosera cuneifolia and D. admirabilis: Two rosetted sundews from the Cape
    Province, South Africa
  • News and Views
  • Book Review:Carnivorous Plants of New Zealand
  • Looking Back: CPN 25 years ago
  • ICPS on the World Wide Web: Carnivorous Plant E-mail Listserve Archive
  • Building a Windowbox Micro-Bog for Urban Environments
  • A Method for Growing Aldrovanda
  • Seed bank
  • Genlisea lobata Fromm-Trinta
  • Literature Reviews
  • The Fourth International Carnivorous Plant Conference
  • Growing Carnivorous Plants in the UK
  • Back Issue Sale is over announcement
  • Indices for 2002

Contents of the September 2002 Issue (#31:3)

Contents of the June 2002 Issue (#31:2)

  • Sarracenia minor Walt. var. okefenokeensis Schnell: A New Variety
  • New Cultivars [Sarracenia ‘Tornado’, Sarracenia leucophylla ‘Cronus’, Sarracenia ‘Fireworks’]
  • The Tropical Liana Triphyophyllum peltatum (Dioncophyllaceae): Formation of Carnivorous Organs is Only a Facultative Prerequisite for Shoot Elongation
  • Seed bank
  • News and Views
  • Genlisea aurea St.Hil.
  • A Cure for the Common Cold
  • Book Review: Gardening With Carnivores
  • Looking Back: CPN 25 Years Ago
  • Literature Reviews

Contents of the March 2002 Issue (#31:1)

  • The search for Utricularia ochroleuca in Western North America
  • Book Review: Charles Clarke
  • Conrad Gessner and Pinguicula--A nearly forgotten of the pre-Linnean history of Lentibulariaceae and Pinguicula L.
  • Literature Reviews
  • Ecological Differences Between Utricularia ochroleuca and U. intermedia Habitats
  • New Cultivars [Sarracenia 'Triple Rarity']
  • News and Views
  • Drosera indica from Narrabri, New South Wales
  • Cold Pinguicula in a hot climate
  • ICPS Seed bank
  • Names of cultivars registered in 2001
  • Looking back
  • New back issue pricing
  • Instructions to authors

Contents of the December 2001 Issue (#30:4)

Contents of the September 2001 Issue (#30:3)

  • Looking Back 25 years
  • Presidential note
  • 4th ICPS conference note
  • News & Views
  • U. geminiloba
  • New Cultivars [Nepenthes 'Scarlet Splash', Utricularia calycifida 'Asenath Waite']
  • Highlights of a trip to W. Australia
  • Confessions of a Dabbler
  • ICPS 2000 photo contest
  • Cephalotus on capillary mats
  • New pot design for tuberous Drosera
  • ICPS 2000 Video review
  • Back issue pricing
  • Lit Reviews
  • Seed bank

Contents of the June 2001 Issue (#30:2)

  • Drosera neocaledonica: Its Origins, Habitat and Cultivation
  • Book Review: Food Webs and Container Habitats: the Natural History and Ecology of Phytotelmata
  • Rare Sarracenia Poaching and the ICPS
  • Seed bank
  • New Observation of Leaf Movements in Pinguicula (Lentibulariaceae)
  • Looking Back: CPN 25 years ago
  • Literature Reviews
  • News & Views
  • New Back Issue Pricing
  • How to Build a Personal Reverse Osmosis Waterworks
  • Nepenthes Photographs

Contents of the March 2001 Issue (#30:1)

  • Utricularia nelumbifolia Gardn. at last!
  • Looking Back: CPN 25 years ago
  • New Cultivars [Pinguicula 'Titan', Sarracenia leucophylla 'Schnell's Ghost']
  • Seed bank
  • Uptake of the amino acid alanine by digestive leaves: proof of carnivory in the tropical liana Tryiphyophyllum peltatum (Dioncophyllaceae)
  • Refining the terrarium: alternative techniques for the indoor gardener
  • News and views
  • Black vine weevil: a Sarracenia and Darlingtonia pest
  • Good news: Drosera longifolia L. rejected, Sarracenia purpurea L. conserved with a new type
  • New cultivars registered in 2000
  • Instructions to authors

Contents of the December 2000 Issue (#29:4)

    --also included with the December mailing--
  • ICPS 2000 Meeting Proceedings Special Supplement
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Contents of the September 2000 Issue (#29:3)

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Contents of the June 2000 Issue (#29:2)

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Contents of the March 2000 Issue (#29:1)

  • Editorial
  • Colchicine treatment on sterile hybrid sundews
  • Colchicine hazards
  • Two new Pinguicula hirtiflora Ten. (Lentibulariaceae) sites in Italy
  • Nine new cultivars [Sarracenia 'Imhotep', Dionaea 'Dentate Traps', Dionaea Dentate Traps Group, Dionaea 'Sawtooth', Pinguicula 'Pirouette', Utricularia 'Yog-Sothoth', Utricularia 'Mrs. Marsh', Utricularia 'Lavinia Whateley', Utricularia 'Cthulthu']
  • Literature reviews
  • News and views
  • Book review (Carnivorous Plants, Camilleri)
  • Looking Back: CPN 25 Years Ago
  • Instructions to authors
  • The savage garden: chilly nights
  • New cultivars registered in 1999 (list)
  • ICPS seed bank
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Contents of the December 1999 Issue (#28:4)

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Contents of the September 1999 Issue (#28:3)

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Contents of the June 1999 Issue (#28:2)

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Contents of the March 1999 Issue (#28:1)

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Contents of the December 1998 Issue (#27:4)

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Contents of the September 1998 Issue (#27:3)

  • Editorial
  • News & Views
  • Rediscovery of an Outstanding Nepenthes: Nepenthes aristolochioides
  • Book Review: The Savage Garden
  • Literature Reviews
  • Savage Garden: Seasonal Carnivores for the Bog Garden
  • Carnivorous Plants Near Mt. Lesueur, Western Australia
  • ICPS seed bank
  • Anthocyanin
  • A Noteworthy Florida Find: Drosera filiformis var. tracyi
  • Observations on a Selection of Tasmanian Carnivorous Plants
  • Looking Back: CPN 25 Years Ago
  • Special Review: The World of Carnivorous Plants 1999 Wall Calendar
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Contents of the June 1998 Issue (#27:2)

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Contents of the March 1998 Issue (#27:1)

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